A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T.26.VII The Laws of Healing

March 17, 2020

Our illusions are what needs healing. Our illusions are our misperceptions. They are mistaken. They do not represent reality. They are ideas, thoughts. And they are changeable. Healing is the changing of our ideas and thoughts from mistaken to correct. One could also say it is changing from the false to the truth – from the fake to the true. Every mistaken idea is simply mistaken. There is no big or small mistake in reality. They are all simply mistaken ideas we believe are true. We may have given one or more of our mistaken ideas more value and thus, find them harder to let go of, but no one illusory idea is more than another. Our preference to any one idea or belief does not make it true. All mistaken ideas must give way to truth with equal ease, for none of them have any power whatsoever. Truth is simply true and illusion is simply nothing.

Nothing gives meaning where no meaning is. And truth needs no defense to make it true. Illusions have no witnesses and no effects. Who looks on them is but deceived. Forgiveness is the only function here, and serves to bring the joy this world denies to every aspect of the One’s Child where sin was thought to rule. Perhaps you do not see the role forgiveness plays in ending death and all beliefs that rise from mists of guilt. Sins are beliefs that you impose between another and yourself. They limit you to time and place, and give a little space to you, another little space to them. This separating off is symbolized, in your perception, by a body which is clearly separate and a thing apart. Yet what this symbol represents is but your wish to be apart and separate.   T-26.VII.8:1-10

In reality we are one with each other, with all creation and Source – the One. However, we have believed the idea that we are separate. This idea is the illusion. This is the idea that keeps us from the awareness of our holiness in Oneness and Unity. And we have believed it so strongly that we find it difficult if not impossible to let go of that belief. Forgiveness’ is the healing of that belief. It is the willingness to be shown a different idea that we are willing to believe at first and then grow to realize its truth. Forgiveness is the healing of our mind – our thoughts. It is a shift, a mind shift. It is a shift that is necessary for us to return to the awareness of who we really are – that which we have blocked from our awareness but never really lost. We are forever holy, whole, complete and limitless. Perhaps it’s time we stop denying the truth about ourselves.

Salvation, perfect and complete, asks but a little wish that what is true be true; a little willingness to overlook what is not there; a little sigh that speaks for Heaven as a preference to this world that death and desolation seem to rule. In joyous answer will creation rise within you, to replace the world you see with Heaven, wholly perfect and complete. What is forgiveness but a willingness that truth be true? What can remain unhealed and broken from a unity which holds all things within itself? There is no sin. And every miracle is possible the instant that the Child of the One perceives their wishes and the Will of the One are one.   T-26.VII.10:1-6

Salvation is the healing of our mind. Salvation is the forgiveness of our mistaken thoughts and beliefs. Salvation is the realization that we are holy, whole, complete and limitless as we are created in Oneness. Embracing another we are encountering this very moment as inseparable from us – that we are One in Spirit – is the healing of our mind. It is our return to being in the One Mind. As we make this shift in thought and belief we step into the awareness of Heaven and see the world completely differently. Nothing in form has changed, but we perceive it differently. Do you want to see differently? Do you want to see the joy all around you? Then take this little step and allow Spirit within you to show you the way. It’s been within you all along waiting for your little willingness. Let it be so now.

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